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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomer

A Doomer is a peaknik that in addition to the normal peak oil concerns over oil depletion leading to a severe economic recession or Great Depression, also believes in the inevitability of a Malthusian Catastrophe at the end of the cheap oil era.

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Doomers are a pretty sad lot, as evidenced by some of their rants on the RHP forums. Also, the Doomer movement might have been stillborn had the media not been so lazy or tolerant of frenetic environmental alarmists. By the way, Malthus was wrong:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080406/COMMENTARY/48905088/1012

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